How to format your references using the Climate Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Climate Policy. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Glasby, G. P. (2000). ECONOMIC GEOLOGY: Lessons Learned from Deep-Sea Mining. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5479), 551–553.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lavik, E., & Ustin, J. (2012). Medicine. Leveraging shear stress to bust clots with nanoparticles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6095), 658–659.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bergmann, D. C., Lukowitz, W., & Somerville, C. R. (2004). Stomatal development and pattern controlled by a MAPKK kinase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5676), 1494–1497.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Byrnes, T., Koyama, S., Yan, K., & Yamamoto, Y. (2013). Neural networks using two-component Bose-Einstein condensates. Scientific Reports, 3, 2531.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Douglas, J., & Noy, E. A. (2010). Building Surveys and Reports. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Motta, C., & Saez, M. (Eds.). (2013). Gender and Sexuality in Latin America - Cases and Decisions (Vol. 24). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Quarteroni, A., Saleri, F., & Gervasio, P. (2014). Numerical differentiation and integration. In F. Saleri & P. Gervasio (Eds.), Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave (pp. 113–136). Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Climate Policy.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, September 28). Meditation And Vacations Can Alter Your Gene Expression To Protect Against Aging. IFLScience. IFLScience.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (1978). Challenges of Protecting Personal Information in an Expanding Federal Computer Network Environment (LCD-76-102). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Huang, Y.-F. (2013). The Effects of Two Methods on Training EFL University Students in Taiwan to Identify Three Non-Native Phonemic Contrasts [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State University.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Gustines, G. G. (2013, July 8). ‘Dark Knight Returns’ Cover Art Goes for Sale. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Glasby, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Glasby, 2000; Lavik & Ustin, 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Lavik & Ustin, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Byrnes et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Climate Policy
Abbreviation	Clim. Policy
ISSN (print)	1469-3062
ISSN (online)	1752-7457
Scope	Atmospheric Science General Environmental Science